NSPE Urges Repeal of Pennsylvania Industrial Exemption

On September 29, NSPE President Harve Hnatiuk, P.E., F.NSPE, sent a letter to the Pennsylvania House Committee on Professional Licensure to comment on a bill (HB 1447) that could repeal Pennsylvania’s industrial exemption. The bill is set to be heard by the committee on October 8. Hnatiuk wrote: “This hearing presents an opportunity to address the need to amend P.L. 913, No. 367, to remove exemptions from licensure and regulation that allow unlicensed individuals to engage in the practice of engineering that could impact the public health, safety and welfare…. NSPE recommends the phasing out of existing industrial exemptions in state licensing laws.” Read the complete letter.